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Ex-Law Firm Worker Gets More Time To Give Info In Bias Suit

By Carla Baranauckas

A New Jersey state judge gave the attorney for a woman suing a Garden State law firm in a workplace discrimination case additional time to respond to overdue discovery requests after he failed to reply for more than seven months.

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NJ Borough Sues American Dream Mall Over Sunday Sales

By Isaac Monterose

A New Jersey borough sued a major East Rutherford mall owner, its main tenant and other parties in state court over the mall allegedly violating the state's ban on selling certain items on Sundays, urging the court to block the main tenant's retail operations and to declare the mall's premises and the sale of the banned products to be public nuisances.

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ATM Network Investment Was $700M Ponzi Scheme, Suit Says

By Sydney Price

Four individuals have been hit with a proposed class action from an investment advisory firm, accusing them of using purported investments in ATM networks to run a $700 million Ponzi scheme.

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Ex-Fugees Rapper Ordered To Pay $6.5M In Loan Dispute

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia federal judge has ruled that former Fugees rapper Prakazrel Samuel "Pras" Michel must repay $6.5 million to a lender that accused him of fraudulently selling his music catalog while it was being held as collateral.

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Wyndham Licensee Must Cover Sex Trafficking Claims

By Mike Curley

A New Jersey federal judge has found that a Wyndham Hotel Group LLC licensee can't escape an indemnity provision requiring it to cover the group in suits alleging sex trafficking was allowed to happen at the hotel.

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Sonos Gets Fed. Circ. To Revive IP From $33M Google Verdict

By Dani Kass

A California federal judge wrongly invalidated claims of Sonos Inc. speaker patents after its $32.5 million jury trial win over Google LLC, the Federal Circuit said Thursday as it largely reversed the judge's holding.

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THIRD CIRCUIT

3rd Circ. Agrees Natera Doesn't Owe $45M In False Ad Fight

By Rae Ann Varona

The Third Circuit Thursday affirmed a lower court's decision to take genetic testing company Natera off the hook from paying $45 million in damages to rival CareDx, saying in an unpublished opinion that CareDx failed to prove Natera actually deceived consumers through false statements about a Natera test's superiority.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Brief

Energy Dept. Extends Pa. Plant's Lifespan, Citing Power Risks

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Thursday ordered PJM Interconnection and Constellation Energy to continue operating a Pennsylvania power plant that was supposed to have closed in May.

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ENFORCEMENT

Brief

SC Ends Sandoz, Novartis Price-Fixing Claims For $2.4M

By Aaron Keller

A Connecticut federal judge on Thursday approved South Carolina's request to dismiss its generic drug price-fixing claims from three multistate lawsuits against Sandoz Inc., Sandoz AG, Novartis AG and Fougera Pharmaceuticals Inc., four months after the parties filed a notice of settlement.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

How 9th Circ. Customs Ruling Is Affecting FCA Litigation

The Ninth Circuit’s recent Island Industries decision holding that the U.S. Court of International Trade doesn’t have exclusive jurisdiction over whistleblower suits involving import duties has set the stage for the False Claims Act to be a key weapon on the customs enforcement battlefield, say attorneys at Haynes Boone.

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Series

Coaching Cheerleading Makes Me A Better Lawyer

At first glance, cheerleading and litigation may seem like worlds apart, but both require precision, adaptability, leadership and the ability to stay composed under pressure — all of which have sharpened how I approach my work in the emotionally complex world of mass torts and personal injury, says Rashanda Bruce at Robins Kaplan.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Law360 Pulse Exclusive: The Billable Hour

In this package, Law360 Pulse explores the demand for rainmakers, the continued increase of hourly rates and whether artificial intelligence will finally kill the billable hour. For all Law360 readers, click to access a sample story: Why This Small-Firm Lawyer Charges $3,000 Per Hour.

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JAG Corps Sent To DC To Fill 'Critical Vacancies'

By Courtney Bublé

Military attorneys are being sent to prosecute crimes in Washington, D.C., as the Trump administration seeks to beef up prosecutions in the nation's capital as part of the federal surge of law enforcement.

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Judge Newman's Suspension Extended Once Again

By Ryan Davis and Theresa Schliep

Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's suspension from hearing cases was extended by another year on Friday, in a unanimous opinion by the appeals court's 11 other judges.

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Q&A

'Be Careful,' New Mich. Chief Judge Tells Attys When Using AI

By Danielle Ferguson

Just weeks into the job, the new chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan is navigating challenges like an uptick in cases and the need for another magistrate judge, and has a word of warning for attorneys using artificial intelligence in their practice.

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Analysis

M&A Attys Hand Tasks To 'Machines' In Careful Embrace Of AI

By Al Barbarino

Artificial intelligence is no longer just a back-office tool in mergers and acquisitions legal work, but is increasingly embedded in core deal processes that help attorneys manage due diligence, draft agreements and assess risk.

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DOJ Targets BigLaw, Big Tech For Antitrust 'Gamesmanship'

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Department of Justice's top antitrust official singled out technology platforms and the BigLaw attorneys who represent them for "gamesmanship" by hiding key information from merger and conduct investigators, and announced a special task force "to tackle abuses that arise in our investigations."

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Fifth Circuit vacated a pair of Biden-era regulations aimed at bolstering transparency in the short-selling market.

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Panel Nixes Buzbee Win Against Atty Who Aided Campaign

By Madison Arnold

A Texas state appeals court has reversed a $765,000 summary judgment awarded to personal injury lawyer Tony Buzbee in a dispute with an attorney who said she was never paid for her contributions to his 2019 Houston mayoral campaign.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Is AI killing the billable hour — here's what general counsel need to know about how the use of artificial intelligence is affecting law firms' billing model. Anthropic has agreed to a deal to end copyright suits brought by authors who said their works were illegally used to train the company's large language model. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.​

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DOJ Swears In 3 New Board Of Immigration Appeals Members

By Britain Eakin

The Executive Office for Immigration Review announced Friday that three new Board of Immigration Appeals members — Sheila E. Gallow, Marcos Gemoets and Kathleen K. Volkert — were sworn in during a ceremony on Thursday.

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Colorado Law Firm Faces Class Action Over Data Breach

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado law firm was hit with a proposed class action in federal court after a Utah woman claimed that the firm didn't take ample measures to protect the personal information of more than 5,000 people, which was stolen in a data breach earlier this year.

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Scores On July Bar Exam Rise Amid Dip In Test Takers

By Tracey Read

The number of examinees passing the multistate bar exam in July continued to gain momentum, with near record highs seen this summer over the past 12 years, according to an announcement from the National Conference of Bar Examiners.

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LA's Acting US Atty Essayli Faces DQ Bid Over Expired Term

By Craig Clough

The Federal Public Defender's Office in Los Angeles urged a California federal court Friday to disqualify acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, arguing that his temporary 120-day appointment has expired and his continuing service in the role "circumvented limitations" imposed by Congress.

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Exclusive

'I'm Flabbergasted': Fla. Atty's Accusers Rip Bar For Inaction

By Phillip Bantz

More than a year after it began receiving complaints that a Florida lawyer was ghosting clients, the state bar has yet to take action — highlighting what experts call a slow-moving process that can fail to keep pace with expansive alleged frauds.

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Split Fed. Circ. Backs Limits On Presidential Tariff Powers

By Hailey Konnath

The Federal Circuit held that President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs were improperly imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which it said makes no mention of "tariff," "duties" or "tax."

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Law360 Names Attys Who Moved Up The Firm Ranks In Q2

A promotion to partner or election to practice group chair means a slew of new responsibilities and also lots of well-deserved recognition. Law360 reveals the list of attorneys whose commitment to legal excellence earned them highly coveted spots in the law firm leadership ranks. Find out if your old legal friends — or rivals — moved up in the second quarter of the year.

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Hub Hires: Prince Lobel, Rubin And Rudman, Weil

By Chris Villani

The dog days of summer did little to slow the churn in the Boston legal market. Prince Lobel added a veteran cybersecurity lawyer, Rubin and Rudman made a pair of partner hires, and Weil added more attorneys from Latham.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen Prosecco DOC Consortium bring an intellectual property claim against a distributor, the Serious Fraud Office bring a civil recovery claim against the ex-wife of a solicitor jailed over a £19.5 million fraud scheme, and law firm Joseph Hage Aaronson & Bremen LLP sue its former client, the bankrupt Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Akin Gump

Alston & Bird

Arnall Golden

Arnold & Porter

Baker Botts

Baker Donelson

Baker McKenzie

Bast Amron

Bernstein Litowitz

Bird & Bird

Bland Richter

Brach Eichler

Bradley Arant

Bressler Amery

Brewer Attorneys

Brownstein Hyatt

Bryan Cave

Calfee Halter

Casner & Edwards

Cleary Gottlieb

Cloherty & Steinberg

Clyde & Co

Cole & Van Note

Constangy Brooks

Cozen O'Connor

Cruser Mitchell

Curtis Mallet-Prevost

DAC Beachcroft

DLA Piper

Davis Polk

Davis Saperstein

Duane Morris

Dykema

Elias Law Group LLP

Foley Hoag

Fowler White Burnett

Fox Rothschild

Fox Williams

Freshfields

Fullerton Beck

Gateley PLC

Gibson Dunn

Gordon Rees

Gowling WLG

Grant & Eisenhofer

Haynes Boone

Hill Dickinson

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Jackson Lewis PC

Joseph Hage

K&L Gates

Kabateck LLP

Katten Muchin

Keller Rohrback

Kelley Drye

Keoghs LLP

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Kluger Kaplan

Latham & Watkins

Lee Sullivan Shea

Lowenstein Sandler

MFG Solicitors

Mason Hayes

Mayer Brown

McCarter & English

McCormick & Priore

McLaughlin & Stern

Meloni & McCaffrey

Milbank LLP

Miner Siddall

Mintz Levin

Moore & Van Allen

Morgan Lewis

Much Shelist

Munger Tolles

Napoli Shkolnik

Nixon Peabody

Norton Rose

Orrick Herrington

Osborne Clarke

Outten & Golden

Panish Shea

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Peiffer Wolf

Perkins Coie

Phelps Dunbar

Polsinelli PC

Potter Clarkson

Prince Lobel

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Reinhart Boerner

Richards Layton

Robins Kaplan

Rubin and Rudman

Russell-Cooke

Schipani & Norman

Seed IP

Seward & Kissel

Shakespeare Martineau

Shell Law Firm

Silver Law Group

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Smith Gambrell

Smith Tozian

Stephenson Harwood

Stibbe NV

Stokes Wagner

Sullivan & Cromwell

Tarter Krinsky

Troutman

Tyson & Mendes

Venable LLP

Wagner McLaughlin

Warshaw Burstein

Weber Gallagher

Weil Gotshal

Wheeler Trigg

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

Withersworldwide

Wolf Greenfield

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Amazon.com Inc.

Amedisys Inc.

American Bar Association

Anthropic PBC

Apple Inc.

Armistice Capital LLC

Ashok Leyland

Aurobindo Pharma Ltd.

Avet Pharmaceuticals Inc.

BNP Paribas SA

Boehringer Ingelheim Corp.

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Inc.

CVS Health Corp.

Cityblock Health Inc.

Constellation Energy Corp.

DSV A/S

Dell Technologies Inc.

Deutsche Bahn AG

Duke University

Dunkin' Brands Group Inc.

Epic Games Inc.

Federal Bar Association

Fordham University

Fougera Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Google LLC

Halliburton Co.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

International Association of Better Business Bureaus Inc.

JetBlue Airways Corp.

Johnson & Johnson

Juniper Networks Inc.

KKR & Co. Inc.

KPMG International

Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.

Kingspan Group PLC

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LinkedIn Corp.

Lloyds Pharmacy Ltd.

Martin Marietta Materials Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Midas Group Inc.

Natera Inc.

National Grid PLC

National Rifle Association of America

Nationwide Building Society

New Civil Liberties Alliance

Novartis AG

Ohio State University

PJM Interconnection LLC

Panera Bread Co.

Paramount Management Group LLC

Paypal Holdings Inc.

Peloton Interactive Inc.

Petrofac Ltd.

RELX PLC

RWE AG

Sandoz International GmbH

Sonos Inc.

State Bank of India

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

The Florida Bar

UBS Group AG

UnitedHealth Group Inc.

Vaxart Inc.

Walmart Inc.

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Inc.

Yahoo Inc.

ZEDRA

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arizona Attorney General's Office

California Privacy Protection Agency

Chicago Transit Authority

Executive Office for Immigration Review

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

HM Revenue & Customs

Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection

New Jersey Court

New Jersey Meadowlands Commission

New York Attorney General's Office

Oregon Attorney General's Office

Riverside County District Attorney's Office

Serious Fraud Office

South Carolina Attorney General's Office

U.S. Air Force

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Postal Service

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado